Obion County Board of Education
May 7, 2012

Background Information:

In addition to advertising, we solicited bids for the purchase of one hundred (100) computer monitors for the various schools. This purchase was anticipated during the budget planning process and funds are available for this purchase within the General Purpose School Fund budget for the current fiscal year as previously approved by the Board. We received bids from eight (8) companies, which are summarized on the bid request tally sheet. Individual bids were as follows:

Central Knox - $125.25 each
GovConnection – $118.00 each
CDW Government LLC – $114.75 each
Personal Computer Systems, Inc. – $124.75 each
SDF Professional Computers, Inc. – $115.50 each
Insight Systems Exchange – $71.23 each (refurbished – does not meet specs)
Aprisa Technology LLC – $118.00 each
Howard Technology Solutions – $134.00 each

Staff Recommendation:

I recommend approval of the low bid meeting all specifications as submitted by CDW Government LLC in the amount of $114.75 for each computer monitor for a total purchase of $11,475.00.